“It may well be towed to another site and possibly a post-mortem examination will be carried out.

“The level of decomposition is slight, it is considered to be relatively fresh so it probably died within the last two hours or so.

Unfortunately there is a dead humpback whale at Tyninghame. Whilst we appreciate people are interested to see it we do ask that you stay back from the carcass for health and safety reasons. We are aiming to remove it from the beach later this evening. pic.twitter.com/wya4INmRlR